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What is Sudden Stratospheric Warming and what does it mean for our weather, Meteorologist Charlie Powell explains

What is Sudden Stratospheric Warming?

As CO2 concentrations continue to rise, 2020 has been ranked joint hottest on record globally with 2016 according to Copernicus Climate Change Service

Climate Crisis: 2020 joint hottest year on record globally

Where does our weather come from? Why wind direction is so important 

What is line convection? Why some rainfall is particularly heavy

Environment Agency flood response exercise

Meteorologist Charlie Powell investigates more about how flooding is managed when he visits the Environment Agency

What happens after the rain? How flooding is managed

Spring, Summer, Autumn Winter: The seasons, but why are they different in meteorology compared to astronomy? Meteorologist Chris Page explains

How do we define the seasons? - Meteorological Vs Astronomical

Meteorologist, Aisling Creevey, explains what a Blue Moon is

What is a Blue Moon?

How many different types of rainbow are there?

The UK Met Office have released the storm names for this years storm season, which starts on the 1st of September. Did your name make the list?

Storm names for 2020-21 revealed by Met Office

Chris Page explains why we get the rich earthy smell once it rains, after a dry and warm period of weather. It's known as Petrichor

Why does rain smell so good?

We've got a showery few days ahead but why is it so hard to predict exactly where they're going to crop up?

Why are showers one of the hardest things to forecast?

ITV Meteorologist Philippa Drew takes a look at some of the most common weather lore

Meteorology or myth?

Comet NEOWISE in the West Country night sky

Comet NEOWISE in the night sky

These stripes show the temperature change from 1850 to the present-day of global temperature change around the world. Each line represents the average temperature of that year. A dramatic rise can be seen in the past few decades showing how the world is warming

Mets Unite around the world showing the famous Climate Stripes

Met. Office confirm the main contributor to warming in the last 170 years is human influence on climate from increasing greenhouse gases

The last ten years have been the warmest ever recorded

ITV meteorologist Chris Page provideds the facts about hurricanes and the UK

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